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I appreciate the work done here and I get why you included the third party cases you did. It would be interesting to do an exhaustive inclusion of third-party work, including organized play. If you add the incredible number of pages from Living Greyhawk, Living Forgotten Realms, Ashes of Athas...

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I think the adventure is a strong upgrade to the original and you can run it perfectly well with PCs you made in any fashion. The adventure, like the original, is a sandbox. Each booklet has an initial section with helpful sidebars, but it's otherwise a great 5E version of KotB. The maps and...

From our interview with Justice, it doesn't sound as if there are any public plans (or had been any plans at launch) to do more with the Starter Set. Justice says that the team does react to what they hear. If in public places enough people are asking for something, then it's possible that they...

I'll argue that it's never in and of itself a bad omen for D&D to see other RPGs grow. 5E saw huge growth for other RPGs, and it's because 5E was such a fantastic edition of the game that pleased so many types of players... which in turn brought in new gamers and increased other games too. I'll...

This is really an awesome article, Echohawk. Thank you! I look forward to the upcoming articles.

It will vary by Patreon creator, and Patreon is constantly making changes which impact how any of us may run our own Patreon. Their data shows that introducing a "free" category can be a way for folks to follow the creator and this can mean many things: see that they post often/consistently, get...

Sorry for not responding sooner, folks! I was busy on a writing project and I'm catching up. Most probably have the set now, and we had our recording with the project lead, Justice Arman, here (or YouTube here). It's super fast. When we ran at PAX, we already set them up so all we had to do was...

Awesome question. I think it is important to note that there have been multiple versions and iterations of B2 across the years, many with really great ideas (and some not so great ones). In this iteration, we get a lot more to play with. We get a third devoted to wilderness encounters, a third...

Yes! We ran tables for even one player (though we tried hard to prevent seating just one person) and often for 2-3. Our DMs are typically very experienced and we pick our Demo/LtP DMs carefully so they can handle very new players or unusual table sizes. When running for one player, we don't run...

Thanks! I oversaw the running of D&D events at PAX West, which used the Starter Set for all the Demo and Learn-to-Play events. The same events were previously run at Gen Con, but I did not attend Gen Con. I did speak to folks there and they said it was equally positive to my experiences at PAX...

That's very kind of you, thank you. I try to honor what others have done before me. So many amazing experiences wouldn't have been possible without the hard work of others. I really appreciate that.

Related to our show, Mike Balles said they will be auctioning a Daggerheart special edition boxed set to the highest supporter of their efforts in the next 7 days! You can support Mike and Claudia here.

The latest! (This week we had two guests, so Mike is in the second part of the podcast or second video on YT) Thanks! Mike is amazing.